This paper examines Juglar's theory of periodic crises, comparing its various ingredients with the state of the contemporary literature on the subject. It is argued that, except for the introduction of the systematic use of statistics which was a real novelty, Juglar did not break new grounds,...

This article examines the contribution of Clément Juglar to the theory of periodic crises in the context of the evolution of the doctrine towards the middle of the nineteenth century. Juglar's original contribution (1862) and its evolution to the final form of his doctrine are described in...

This introductory chapter explains the rationale of dedicating an entire volume to the study of a specific subject - crises and cycles - as discussed in dictionaries and encyclopedia. The first lies in the nature of writings prepared for such reference works, a truly scientific-literary genre...

This chapter offers a general bibliography of dictionaries of economics and related subjects, in so far as they contain a significant portion of economic entries, organized by compilers and by title, reporting all the relevant bibliographic data and retracing the editorial history. This...

Although the notion of ‘crisis' was first subsumed under the idea of ‘cycle' and eventually expurgated from economic terminology, the term continues to exist and occasionally makes it to economic dictionaries. This chapter surveys its usage in post-war dictionaries, beginning from some...

This chapter examines Charles Coquelin's contribution to the theory of crises in his own and Guillemin's Dictionnaire de l'économie politique (1852). The constantly operating cause he identified lies in the monopoly of the bank of issue. This causes a cumulation of tension within the system, as...

This chapter examines the features of the six earliest articles on commercial crises published in economic dictionaries and in encyclopedias, 1835-42. It is noted that they offered the very first definitions of ‘crises' found in the literature, although the conception was still rather trivial,...

In his Dictionnaire des sciences politiques et sociales (1854), Auguste Ott (an otherwise obscure systematizer of Philippe Buchez's theory of social economic) contributed one of the few French criticisms of Say's law, and formulated a theory of crises based on the systematic disappointment of...

This paper examines the use of the medical metaphor in the early theories of crises. It first considers the borrowing of medical terminology and generic references to disease, which, notwithstanding their relatively trivial character, illustrate how crises were originally conceived as...

This chapter surveys the classificatory approaches of business cycles and crises theories found in dictionary articles. These are found to belong to a surprisingly small number of types. At first, dictionary writers only cited the theories they wanted to disprove. Then (especially in Germany in...